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MAGNESIUM: 4 funnels of 108 atoms
432
Atomic weight 24.18
Number weight 432/18 24.00
ZINC (Plate IX, 2) also brings a new device:
the funnel is of the same type as that of magnesium,
while septets are substituted for the triplets, and
36 additional atoms are thus slipped in. Then
we see four spikes, alternating with the funnels and
pointing to the angles, each adding 144 atoms to the
total. The spikes show the ten-atomed triangle,
already met with in other metals, three very regular
pillars, each with six spheres, containing two, three,
four, four, three, two atoms, respectively. The
supporting spheres are on the model of the central
globe, but contain more atoms. Funnels and spikes
alike radiate from a simple central globe, in which
five contained spheres are arranged crosswise, preparing
for the fully developed cross of cadmium. The
ends of the cross touch the bottoms of the funnels.

ZINC: 4 funnels of 144 atoms 576
4 spikes of 144
atoms 576
Central globe
18
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Total
1170
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Atomic
weight 64.91
Number
weight 1170/18 65.00
CADMIUM (Plate IX, 3) has an increased complexity
of funnels; the diagram
shows one of the three similar segments which lie
within the funnels as
cylinders; each of these contains four spheres, three
pillars and three
ovoids, like the spike of zinc turned upside down,
and the zinc ten-atomed
triangle changed into three ten-atomed ovoids.
The centre-piece is a new
form, though prefigured in the central globe of zinc.

SULPHUR (Plate X, 1), which, like magnesium, has no
central globe, and consists simply of the zinc funnels,
much less compressed than zinc but the same in composition.

SULPHUR: 4 funnels of 144 atoms
576
Atomic weight 31.82
Number weight 576/18 32.00
SELENIUM (Plate X, 2) is distinguished by the exquisite
peculiarity, already noticed, of a quivering star,
floating across the mouth of each funnel, and dancing
violently when a ray of light falls upon it. It
is known that the conductivity of selenium varies
with the intensity of the light falling upon it, and
it may be that the star is in some way connected with
its conductivity. It will be seen that the star
is a very complicated body, and in each of its six
points the two five-atomed spheres revolve round the
seven-atomed cone. The bodies in the funnels resemble
those in magnesium, but a reversed image of the top
one is interposed between itself and the small duad,
and each pair has its own enclosure. The central
globe is the same as that of zinc.